Anna Maria Lambert

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Father: [[|Lt. Col. Lambert]]

Descendant: Augustine Walmisley

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Anna Maria Lambert was the daughter of Colonel W. Lambert, born around 1796.

She married John Angus Walmisley in 1816. She died on the 8th March 1849 at the age of 53.

In 1841 she was living with her husband at North Street, St John The Evangelist, Westminster, Middlesex. Also with them was their children John (22), George (21), Philip (19), and Charles (14). She was born outside of Middlesex, but inside England.

Marriage

Anna Maria married John Angus Walmisley on the 6th September 1816 at St Johns Thanet (Margate) in Kent.

In the European Magazine and London Review, Volume 70:
Sept 6. Mr. John Angus Walmisley , son of Mr. Walmisley, clerk of the papers of the House of Lords, to Anna Maria, daughter of the late Lieutenant-colonel Lambert of the East India Company's service.

Kent, Surrey, London: - Canterbury Marriage Licences, 1810-1837

Volume 35  
 Volume 35  
  fol 77 1816  

County: Kent Country: England John Angus Walmisley Esq of St John Margate bach & Anna Maria Lambert of the s sp. 06 Sep 1816.

Children

Death

Anna Maria Walmisley died in 1849 (Death Index, Jan-Feb-Mar 1849, Brighton, Sussex, East Sussex, Volume 7, Page 247).

In the Obituary section of "The Gentleman's Magazine" in 1849: "March 8. At Brighton, Anna-Maria, wife of John Angus Walmisley, esq. of Clapham-rise."

Also in the London Standard on the 15th March 1849:

She was buried on the 15th March 1849 at St John's, Clapham, at the age of 53. Her residence was listed as Clapham Rises Surrye (removed from Brighton).

Hypotheses about her father

What do we know for sure about the father of Anna Maria Lambert?

• He was called Lieutenant Colonel Lambert (from the marriage announcement).
• He was born between 1700-1780 (given his daughter was born in ~1796)
• He died between 1796 and 1818 (he was dead before her wedding)
• He was a Lt. Col. in the East India company (which strangely a lot of Walmisleys were)
• He lived outside of Middlesex, but inside England when she was born.
• He had a daughter called Anna Maria

Possible candidates:

Frederick Lambert, Burial Date: 13 Jul 1813, Burial Place: Fort St. George, Madras, India

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has an entry for Henry which starts

'Lambert, Henry (d. 1813), naval officer, younger son of Captain Robert Lambert (d. 1810), '

On the otherhand John Lambert's entry in ODof NB begins

'Lambert, Sir John (1772–1847), army officer, was born on 28 April 1772, the son of Captain Robert Alexander Lambert RN (c.1732–1801), '

William Emsden Lambert died in India

Madras G.L.Lambert Captain of in 1805, Major of in 1817, 12 years of service

War-Office, May 26, 1801. Battalion of the £2d Foot. Lieutenant-Colonel the Honorable Philip Cocks to be Captain of a Company, vice Juefl'ie. Captain John Lambert to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Cocks. Ensign George Elrington to be Lieutenant, vice Lambert.

26 July 1794 3d Regiment of Foot, Bre.vet Major Oliver Lambert to be Major, without Purchase, vice Riehar-jso •, promoted in the 64th Foot.

3 Nov 1803 To be Lieutenant: George Anthony Lambert, Gent

14 June 1808: %2dDilto,'Lieutenant Thomas Lambert, from the Westmeath Militia, to be Ensign.

Edmund Lambert

Ensign Edward Lambert to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fi-eetii. Dated April 17, 1817.

To be Lieutenant Colonels in the Army: Major Peter W. Lambert, of the &th Foot. Dated June .4, 1813.

Pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chan- _„ eery, made in a Cause Lambert and others against Coclierdl and others, the Creditors and Legatees of Edmund Lambert, formerly of the Parish of Saint Mary-le-Bonc, "in t)io County of Middlesex, afterwards of Long Melford, in the County of" Suffolk, and since of Wrest. Lavington, in the bounty of Wilts, and of the City of Bath, Esq. a Lieutenant- Colonel in the Honourable East India Company's service, deceased, (who died in the month of .Tune 1808,) yrc forthwith to come iw and prove their debts and claim their legacies, before Francis Paul Stratford, Esq. one of the Musti'rs of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southamptou- Bitiltlings, Chancery-Lane, London, or in default thereof tlici' will be excluded ths benefit of .the sjitid Decree.

11th December 1799 St Marylebone Middlesex Robert Lambert Esquire bachelor of the parish Charlotte Pigou spinster of the parish married by licence Both signed Witnesses Frederick Pigou and Sophia ?